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Questions tagged with 'Hard' and 'crash' at Ask MetaFilter.Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:16:01 -0800Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:16:01 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Hard Drive Purgatoryhttp://ask.metafilter.com/100676/Hard%2DDrive%2DPurgatory
The Last-External-Hard-Drive-I-Ever-Buy is stuck between heaven and hell. Can anyone please help me figure out how to rescue it? I have a USB 2.0 WD Mybook 500gb external HD (essential edition) that is causing me a great deal of grief that none of the earlier posts that came up on my search seem to address, both on askme and other support sites, so this is my last resort before emptying my savings on data recovery...<br>
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Up until last week, the drive has been connected via a d-link USB port which was externally powered. We had a power failure in my office causing the disk to be 'unproperly' ejected. <br>
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Since then, the drive mounts fine as mybook, but as soon as you try to do anything with it, all programs hang until you manually unplug it (and I have it straight into the usb now). And when I say all programs, I mean, Diskwarrior, Techtool, Onyx, Disk Utility, everything. Nothing can touch it.<br>
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Even terminal crashes when I try to run a diskutil list, stopping here:<br>
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/dev/disk2<br>
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER<br>
0: Apple_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk2<br>
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I've tried repairing in terminal which gives me this:<br>
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Error encountered attempting to verify/repair disk2: Unrecognized filesystem (-9958)<br>
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As well as resetting PRAM, booting off the original CD's and trying things that way. Nothing seems to do the trick. Even Data Rescue II which I ran overnight just froze at the prescan stage the whole time.<br>
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All the steps above came out of my initial research, so I still consider myself an advanced novice in these matters, so if anyone in the hive can perhaps suggest some sort of Jedi move I can pull on this, or failing that, a recommendation for Data Recovery in the Melbourne area who can do some sort of evaluation, I would be most grateful.<br>
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Thanksyou!tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.100676Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:16:01 -0800LongDriveData Recovery for an External Hard Drive Crashhttp://ask.metafilter.com/100075/Data%2DRecovery%2Dfor%2Dan%2DExternal%2DHard%2DDrive%2DCrash
My external hard drive just crashed so can anyone suggest a Portland, OR, based data recovery service?tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.100075Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:58:10 -0800tangyraspberryHow do I recover the two tricky things (downloaded thunderbird emails, and protected image folder) from a dead laptop?http://ask.metafilter.com/54700/How%2Ddo%2DI%2Drecover%2Dthe%2Dtwo%2Dtricky%2Dthings%2Ddownloaded%2Dthunderbird%2Demails%2Dand%2Dprotected%2Dimage%2Dfolder%2Dfrom%2Da%2Ddead%2Dlaptop
How can I get access to my protected image folder from a dead laptop and find my email that i backed up on that drive from a new computer? So my laptop nearly melted. the hard drive works fine, and i got an enclosure for it. I have access to all the data except... i was using a POP email account and downloading it to my computer. I was using mozilla thunderbird. It's not in any obvious place like the thunderbird folder or something, and searches haven't helped at all. <br>
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Any ideas where it is?<br>
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The second is that I messed with the settings on my images folder (using windows xp) so that now i can't access the folder on my drive since its on a new computer and presumably i'm not logged in. Is there a way to get access to that stuff?<br>
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thanks! ttag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.54700Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:12:55 -0800aussichtWhere can I swap out my drive?http://ask.metafilter.com/37715/Where%2Dcan%2DI%2Dswap%2Dout%2Dmy%2Ddrive
Gah! The monitor on my Dell laptop decided to die last night. I could really use the files on my hard drive right about now. Where can I take it? Apparently, my extended warranty is just a giant profit margin, as they can't promise me anything until Wednesday. This wasn't a hard drive crash, so I don't need professional data recovery - just access to a spare machine for a few minutes so I can send files to Gmail. Is there any place out there that can do this cheaply? This is an Inspiron 8500 running XP, if that matters.tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.37715Sun, 07 May 2006 07:43:37 -0800Saucy IntruderWindows XP crashes during file access, can I fix it?http://ask.metafilter.com/32876/Windows%2DXP%2Dcrashes%2Dduring%2Dfile%2Daccess%2Dcan%2DI%2Dfix%2Dit
Windows XP crashes whenever it accesses a specific file. The problem: I don't know what file it is. What would cause such a serious error and how do I fix it? I know it's a file located under D:\mp3s\ . I first had the problem when backing up the directory to an external hard drive, in the middle of the copying it crashes the computer. I get a short glimpse of a blue screen of death and then intant reboot. I attempted again and it crashed about the same time into the copying.<br>
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I ran scandisk on the drive to hopefully fix the corrupt file, but it crashes when accessing that part as well. I ran a virus scan, once again the computer crashes anytime any program tries to access that file. <br>
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Anyone have any suggestions on how to track down what file it is and how to remove it? (Short of accessing files one at a time to find the culprit.)tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.32876Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:04:48 -0800monsta coty scottMac OS9 HD Crashhttp://ask.metafilter.com/18506/Mac%2DOS9%2DHD%2DCrash
I'm a pc guy, but my friend's imac hard-drive has crashed. I managed to salvage the entire drive on a dvd, but otherwise it's been rendered inoperable. So, my question: can I just copy the appropriate folders (keeping directory structure) from the dvd to the new (essentially empty) drive and have everything work as before? Can I do this for specific software, such as outlook (all saved emails lost!) or word? Or do I have to to a manual re-install of all software, export of emails, etc., as any self-respecting pc would require. Mac OS 9.22tag:ask.metafilter.com,2005:site.18506Mon, 09 May 2005 15:10:59 -0800pinto